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Our team partners with school districts across the country to offer transportation services that keep student wellbeing at the forefront and put dollars back in the classroom. With decades of experience in transportation strategy, operations, and routing we can support your schools in getting from Point A to Z.
The best place to start for a comprehensive understanding of performance. CESO partners with your leadership team to analyze efficiency and effectiveness before developing an actionable plan for measurable improvement. Learn more →
Technology integration picks up where implementation leaves off. We work with your team to ensure your investment in transportation technology enhances operational success. Learn more →
Whether helping ensure sufficient driver staffing or assisting with a comprehensive reorganization, CESO recognizes that ongoing success depends on the availability, experience, skills, and commitment of high quality transportation staff. Learn more →
Fleet management provides focused attention on the complexities of sizing, funding, maintaining, and planning for the replacement of your fleet. CESO offers several targeted services to ensure a safe and reliable vehicle is always available to support your daily needs. Learn more →
Nothing has a more immediate impact on transportation efficiency than bell schedules, and CESO understands how important optimal school start times are for students, caregivers, and staff. We have helped districts large and small navigate the challenges and arrive at solutions that enhance student success while minimizing transportation costs. Learn more →
Designing efficient and effective routes is at the core of successful transportation programs. CESO works at the intersection of data optimization, people-based route development skills, and local expertise to help you with a one-time redesign, running optimization scenarios, or providing regular ongoing support for your routing team. Learn more →
If you have hired a vendor to operate your routes, CESO can help ensure you have a successful partnership. We can manage a Request for Proposal process, design a Performance Management program, support vendor negotiations, or serve as your contract manager. Learn more →
CESO is your school transportation expert. We are able to provide targeted staffing resources when and where needed. Need customer service expertise? We have a team of professionals ready to respond. A routing specialist for a year? We can do that. A mentor for your new transportation manager? Yes, that too. From quick and easy, to difficult and long, CESO’s on-staff transportation professionals are ready to partner with your school community to deliver exceptional service. Learn more →
CESO has assisted with some of the largest, most complex school transportation improvement initiatives. We recognize that change is always difficult, even positive change. We can work with you and your team to design an achievable plan for change, navigate the complexities, and keep the plan on track. Learn more →
Not seeing exactly what you’re looking for? Need a unique combination of transportation services or support? We’d love to learn more about how we can partner together to rethink possible! If it’s related to school transportation and getting students where they need to be safely, on time, and ready to learn, then we have an expert ready to help.
Explore a new route for transportation support with bundled services.
With bundling, you get cost-effective and simplified solutions. Leverage CESO as a single partner to provide exactly what you need, when you need it. Our transportation service suite provides access to one-time consulting advice, a ready-made transportation management team, and everything in between. All of our services focus on providing data-centric, technology-enabled solutions designed for your unique needs.
By bundling, you can:
We provide an operations assessment for transportation programs to deliver actionable recommendations for improvement. Leveraging a structured and proven methodology, this diagnostic addresses the specific challenges that your program faces. One of our highly experienced school transportation professionals meets with your leadership and staff to evaluate your operations and apply their own experience within the context of your local operating conditions and your district's educational and programmatic goals.
The five components of the assessment build upon each other to provide the clarity you need to move your transportation program forward with confidence:
High impact, minimal effort. The tasks prioritized in Do Now can often be completed by your team, with limited support. Think of it as having all the tools in place, you just need a hand prioritizing, planning or making a conscious effort to focus on them. This stage is often also where we determine pieces to be implemented in Do Soon.
High impact, medium effort. These action items build momentum, accelerating improvement and increasing efficiency. They’re often project-based and may require an investment. Do Soon typically impacts the current or upcoming year, but the timeline is ultimately up for your team to decide.
High impact, high effort. We make sure you’re set up for sustainable, long-term success. Think of these items as your ideal state, with Do Now and Do Soon helping lay its groundwork. Do Later can also include an analysis of results, longer-term planning, and higher levels of organizational change that may require partnership support.
Through consulting, project management, and staffing support, we're here for both the big picture and the day-to-day. Partner with us for any or all, and get completely customized transportation solutions aligned with your goals.
What could you impact if you had more time? Leverage our team for route optimization, bell schedule or boundary planning, and more. Our team develops the plan while you give yourself more hours in the day to focus on what really matters.
The CESO Transportation Technology Platform provides a ready-made suite of tools to redefine what's possible. We couple technology with our unique understanding of how to integrate technology into operations and our focus on the power of data to improve your transportation services.
If there’s a resource gap, we can help. We do the work for our clients, providing interim and long-term staffing support from Transportation Director to Transportation Specialist roles. We combine transportation and operations expertise with a passion for the education community.
CESO is a great partner for our transportation services! Our program is complex because of our district's large geography, but they helped us build sustainable systems, increase accountability, and develop a proactive culture to solve problems more quickly. The support has been invaluable.
CESO's holistic approach and emphasis on collaboration make them an invaluable partner in shaping a bright future for our school district.
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